1992.395: "Astronomy" and Other Studies; verso: Studies and notes for intended subjects

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1992.395

People

John Flaxman, British (York, England 1755 - 1826 London, England)

Title

"Astronomy" and Other Studies; verso: Studies and notes for intended subjects

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

July 1792

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/294644

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite and gray ink and wash on off-white antique laid paper (recto and verso)

Dimensions

actual: 28 x 21.7 cm (11 x 8 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: lower right: J. Flaxman July 1792
• inscription: lower right, gray ink, in artist's hand: J. Flaxman July 1792.
• inscription: verso, in artist's hand: (left column): Apollo---/Cyclops 49---/Saturn casts Pluto/under Tartarus &/Neptune under the Sea/139/Telephus healed by/Acchilles [sic] 101/birth of Adonis 58/nursed by the Naieds/530 Natal: Comes/loved by Venus/birth of love/Erebus by Night/ EOT (?) 98/ Polyzena Slain at the/tomb of Achilles 111/Calisto & Her Son trans-/lated amongst the Stars /Ovid 2-11-12/Mars cured by Apollo/attended by Hebe Ild: V/Sleep & death recieving [sic] /the body of Tarpedon (?) from/Apollo XVI 830/Thetis bringing the arms to/Achilles/the anger of Meleager/IX/Death of Helen 669 N:C:/Hercules bringing back/Theseus 132 Apoll [sic]/Deiphontus hid under/the fire by leves (?) Apoll 16 [sic]/Porphirion/Althea calling the fiends/to revenge the death of/her brother/308 Hesiod cupid delivered to the cowherd/ Pandora opening her/box///(middle column): [top line obscured, brown ink]; graphite: Love & Apathy contending/for the palm; brown ink: the conspiracy of the Earth/& Titans against Calus Hesiod 74/Jupiter casts Cottus, Briareus &/Ju [crossed out] Gyges into Tartarus 94/Hercules striking his master/Linus with the Lyre/ Tisiphone & Cytheron/ N:C:220///(right column), brown ink: [top line obscured] Leander siezing [sic] the garment [partially obscured]/of Hero and reproved by ---[partially obscured]/Musaeus 336/Saturn bearing [?] the P--- [partially obscured]Title from photo services:"Astronomy" and Other Studies, July 1792

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alvin Whitley Fund

Accession Year

1992

Object Number

1992.395

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Exhibition History

• Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) #2: The Past and the Present: British Art of the 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/26/2010 - 01/08/2011

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